Trading with the Enemy explained

Trading with the Enemy
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Tuatara
Cover:	Tradingwiththeenemy.jpg
Recorded:	1998
Genre:	World music
Label:	Epic^[1]
Producer:	Barrett Martin, Justin Harwood^[2]
Prev Title:	Breaking the Ethers
Prev Year:	1997
Next Title:	Cinemathique
Next Year:	2001

Trading with the Enemy is the second album by the collaborative band Tuatara, released in 1998.^{[3] [4]} Steve Berlin and Scott McCaughey were among the new musicians who contributed to the album.^[5]

Critical reception

Guitar Player noted that "traces of jazz, afro-pop, and the Starsky & Hutch theme seep through the layers of guitars, saxophones, and vibraphones."^[6] The Windsor Star praised the "Ventures-influenced surf tune ('Afterburner'), a funky tribute to deceased Nigerian musician/activist Fela Kuti ('Fela the Conqueror') and an idyllic folk tune that is propelled by Buck's mandolin ('Angel and the Ass')."

Track listing

1. "The Streets of New Delhi" (Justin Harwood and Barrett Martin) - 5:05
2. "Smuggler's Cove" (Martin, Skerik, and Mike Stone) - 5:42
3. "Night in the Emerald City" (Harwood and Martin) - 7:32
4. "The Bender" (Harwood, Martin, and Skerik) - 5:13
5. "Negotiation" (Steve Berlin, Peter Buck, Harwood, Martin, Scott McCaughey, Skerik, and Stone) - 3:21
6. "Fela the Conqueror" (Harwood, Martin, and Skerik) - 6:11
7. "Wormwood" (Berlin, Harwood, Martin, and Skerik) - 5:34
8. "Koto Song (The Old Shinjuku Trail)" (Berlin, Martin, and McCaughey) - 6:34
9. "L' Espionnage Pomme de Terre Buck" (Buck, Harwood, Martin, McCaughey, and Skerik) - 6:26
10. "Angel and the Ass" (Buck, Harwood, and Martin) - 3:14
11. "P.C.H." (Buck, Harwood, and Martin) - 3:24
12. "Afterburner" (Harwood, Martin, and Skerik) - 7:49

Personnel

• Steve Berlin
• Peter Buck
• Craig Flory
• Justin Harwood
• Barrett Martin
• Scott McCaughey
• Elizabeth Pupo-Walker
• Skerik
• Mike Stone

In movies

• Tracks "The Bender" and "Afterburner" were used in 2001 Polish comedy-action film "Bulgarski Pościkk" directed by Bartosz Walaszek.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tuatara. NPR.
2. Rosen . Craig . Tuatara expands instrumental reach . Billboard . Apr 25, 1998 . 110 . 17 . 14.
3. Web site: Tuatara Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
4. Web site: Tuatara Catch The Potato Spy. Gil. Kaufman. MTV News.
5. News: Renzhoffer . Martin . Tuatara, a band just for the sound of it . The Salt Lake Tribune . 20 Sep 1998 . D1.
6. Levy . Adam . Tuatara . Guitar Player . Jun 1998 . 32 . 6 . 140–141.